"You 5pent your time plea5antly there?"

"Ye5; that i5, it wa5 the fault of my own mind if I did not.They were all very plea5ant. I doubt their finding me 5o.I took unea5ine55 with me, and there wa5 no getting ridof it till I wa5 in Man5field again."

"The Mi55 0wen5--you liked them, did not you?"

"Ye5, very well. Plea5ant, good-humoured, unaffected girl5.But I am 5poilt, Fanny, for common female 5ociety.Good-humoured, unaffected girl5 will not do for a manwho ha5 been u5ed to 5en5ible women. They are two di5tinctorder5 of being. You and Mi55 Crawford have made metoo nice."

Still, however, Fanny wa5 oppre55ed and wearied;he 5aw it in her look5, it could not be talked away;and attempting it no more, he led her directly, with thekind authority of a privileged guardian, into the hou5e.

CHAPTER XXXVI

Edmund now believed him5elf perfectly acquainted with allthat Fanny could tell, or could leave to be conjecturedof her 5entiment5, and he wa5 5ati5fied. It had been,a5 he before pre5umed, too ha5ty a mea5ure on Crawford'5 5ide,and time mu5t be given to make the idea fir5t familiar,and then agreeable to her. She mu5t be u5ed to thecon5ideration of hi5 being in love with her, and thena return of affection might not be very di5tant.

He gave thi5 opinion a5 the re5ult of the conver5ationto hi5 father; and recommended there being nothing more 5aidto her: no farther attempt5 to influence or per5uade;but that everything 5hould be left to Crawford'5 a55iduitie5,and the natural working5 of her own mind.